Improvement in wardrobe-bedsteads



R. M. AUSTIN.

- Improvement in Wardrobe-Bedste ads;

[40,127,540 Patentedlune 4,1872.

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ROBERT M. AUSTIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARDROBE-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,546, dated June 4,1872.

.wardrobe as to receive all parts of the bedstead and mattress. Itconsists, thirdly, in combining the essential parts.

Figure l is a front elevation, partly in section. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal and vertical section through bedstead and wardrobe; Fig. 3,a detail side view-partly in section.

A is a wardrobe-case, or it may be made to represent the case of asecretary or any other article of furniture, which has a considerableheight. B is an inside chamber, having-separate walls b b and bottom 1).Between these walls b b and those of the case are left spaces to receivethe side pieces 0 O, which are pivoted at their lower ends to the sideof easing A. Under this chamber B is a chamber, D, and a chamber, E,which are separated by a partition, d. F F are the doors of chamber B,and G is the front of chamber D E, made in imitation of a series ofdrawers. To the sides of the casing A and to the front G are attached apair of extensible lazy-tongs,

' H H, and to the bottom of these lazy-tongs are attached the slats I.The lazy-tongs are connected with the drawer-front piece G by means ofthe locking-pieces h h and 13 The side pieces 0 C have perforationsunder their front ends, which pass over studs g g, placed.

in the top of block 9 g on the said drawerfront. J is the ticking,fastened to back of easing A at one end, and at the other end to 4 thefront G.

The application is as follows: By drawing the foot-board G horizontallyoutward on the floor of the room, the lazyntongs, slats, and ticking areall brought out into their proper position, and the pivoted side pieces0 (J turned down and locked to the drawer-front G.

The bed or mattress being now placed between the lazy-tongs, they reacha little above the bottoms of the doors F E, against which the pillowsare placed. Thus the imitated drawer-front G becomes the foot-board, andthe wardrobe, secretary, or other casing, A, becomes the head of thebedstead. The folding or sectional mattress being placed in the chamberD on partition d, and the bed-clothes being placed either in thischamber or in the chamber B the side pieces 0 O are swungup betweencasing and chamberB,and thefoot-board-Grpushed into position as animitation of a drawer-front. As this latter operation is performed, theticking and slats are forced under the partition (I, and into thebottom, chamber E.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The pivoted side pieces 0 G of abedstead, combined with a casing, A, and chamber B, as described, so asto be turned in and out of the space between them, as and for thepurpose described;

2. The chambers D E, separated by partition d from upper part of a.casing, A, combined, as described, with the lazy-tongs H H, slats I,and ticking J, so as to receive said parts and allow room for themattress, as set forth.

3. The wardrobe and bedstead, composed of easing A, chambers B D E, sidepieces 0 G, lazy-ton gs H, slats I, and imitated drawer-front G,combined-as described.

ROBT. M. AUSTIN.

Witnesses:

WM. D. MOULDER, JAMEs E. REYNOLDS.

